Mineral Evolution Database

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Locality Name:
Gold Hill District, Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA

mindat Locality ID: 68554
mindat URL: http://www.mindat.org/loc-68554.html

Tectonic Settings:

Total number of sublocalities beneath "Gold Hill District, Rowan Co., North Carolina, USA": 16
Total number of bottom-level sublocalities: 15

Number of Child Localities: 14
Child Localities:
Barnhardt Mine
Barringer Mine
Bat Shaft
Dutch Creek Mine
Gold Hill Mines
Gold Knob Mine
Honeycutt Mine
Old Field Mine
Randolph Mine
Salisbury Copper
Southern Copper Company Mine
Troutman Mine
Union Copper Mine
Whitney Mine

Latitude: 35°31'34"N
Longitude: 80°21'"W
Decimal Degree (lat, lon): 35.526111111111,-80.35

A	This mineral is Anthropogenic.
G	This mineral is directly dated.
B	This mineral is reported as having this age.
Y	This mineral is using an age reported as an element mineralization period.
O	This mineral is using an age calculated from all data at the locality.
R	The age displayed for this mineral originates from a different, non-child locality.
P	The age displayed for this mineral is the range of ages for this mineral at all of this locality's children.
	This mineral's age has not yet been recorded.

Allophane	Apatite	Aragonite	Arsenopyrite	Baryte	Calcite	Chalcopyrite	Clay	Copper	Corundum
Covellite	Diaspore	Malachite	Mica	None	Not in a structural group	Pyrite	Quartz	Rocksalt	Sphalerite
Spinel	Stibnite	Talc	Tetradymite

Arsenopyrite ()*	Baryte ()*	Bismuthinite ()*	Bornite ()*	Calcite ()*
Cerussite ()*	Chalcocite ()*	Chalcopyrite ()*	Chrysocolla ()*	Copper ()*
Covellite ()*	Cuprite ()*	Galena ()*	Goethite ()*	Gold ()*
Hematite ()*	Magnetite ()*	Malachite ()*	Muscovite ()*	Pyrite ()*
Pyromorphite ()*	Quartz ()*	Sphalerite ()*	Talc ()*	Tenorite ()*
Tetradymite ()*

This Mineral list contains entries from this locality, including sub-localities. Minerals in bold are reported by mindat.org as occurring directly at this locality, and do not occur at any children (sublocalities) of this locality.

Elements at this locality, including sub-localities: Al As Au Ba Bi C Ca Cl Cu Fe H K Mg O P Pb S Si Te Zn

Elements from minerals reported directly at this locality: As Bi Fe O S Te

Structural Groups for minerals in this locality:
Allophane Apatite Aragonite Arsenopyrite Baryte Calcite Chalcopyrite Clay Copper Corundum
Covellite Diaspore Malachite Mica None Not in a structural group Pyrite Quartz Rocksalt Sphalerite
Spinel Stibnite Talc Tetradymite

26 IMA Minerals at location:

Mineral name	Structural Groups	IMA Formula	# of Sublocalities containing mineral	LOCALITY IDs, not mindat ids	# of localities containing mineral
Arsenopyrite ()*	Arsenopyrite	FeAsS	0		9052
Baryte ()*	Baryte	Ba(SO₄)	1	252544	11547
Bismuthinite ()*	Stibnite	Bi₂S₃	0		1935
Bornite ()*	None	Cu₅FeS₄	1	252544	5516
Calcite ()*	Calcite	Ca(CO₃)	3	252530,252531,252536	27770
Cerussite ()*	Aragonite	Pb(CO₃)	1	252543	4979
Chalcocite ()*	None	Cu₂S	5	252530,252532,252536,252538,252540	5707
Chalcopyrite ()*	Chalcopyrite	CuFeS₂	10	252530,252533,252535,252536,252537,252538,252540,252541,252542,252544	27198
Chrysocolla ()*	Allophane	(Cu_2-xAl_x)H_2-xSi₂O₅(OH)₄·nH₂O	1	252544	3531
Copper ()*	Copper	Cu	1	252544	3846
Covellite ()*	Covellite	CuS	1	252544	4165
Cuprite ()*	Not in a structural group	Cu₂O	1	252544	2970
Galena ()*	Rocksalt	PbS	5	252532,252540,252542,252543,252544	24243
Goethite ()*	Diaspore	FeO(OH)	1	252544	7437
Gold ()*	Copper	Au	9	252530,252531,252535,252538,252539,252540,252542,252543,252544	30554
Hematite ()*	Corundum	Fe₂O₃	1	252533	14640
Magnetite ()*	Spinel	Fe²⁺Fe³⁺₂O₄	0		14899
Malachite ()*	Malachite	Cu₂(CO₃)(OH)₂	3	252530,252542,252544	12537
Muscovite ()*	Mica Clay	KAl₂(Si₃Al)O₁₀(OH)₂	8	252530,252536,252538,252539,252540,252542,252543,252544	17380
Pyrite ()*	Pyrite	FeS₂	12	252530,252532,252533,252535,252536,252537,252538,252539,252540,252542,252543,252544	39462
Pyromorphite ()*	Apatite	Pb₅(PO₄)₃Cl	1	252543	1725
Quartz ()*	Quartz	SiO₂	11	252530,252531,252533,252535,252536,252537,252538,252539,252540,252542,252543	61156
Sphalerite ()*	Sphalerite	ZnS	5	252532,252540,252542,252543,252544	21482
Talc ()*	Clay Talc	Mg₃Si₄O₁₀(OH)₂	1	252544	3337
Tenorite ()*	None	CuO	1	252544	1101
Tetradymite ()*	Tetradymite	Bi₂Te₂S	0		510

No ages have been assigned to this locality yet.

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